Armstrong V. United States of America

Armstrong V. United States of America
Title Armstrong V. United States of America PDF eBook
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Pages 16
Release 1966
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Private Property and the Constitution

Private Property and the Constitution
Title Private Property and the Constitution PDF eBook
Author Bruce Ackerman
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 315
Release 1977-01-01
Genre Law
ISBN 0300022379

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The proper construction of the compensation clause of the Constitution has emerged as the central legal issue of the environmental revolution, as property owners have challenged a steady stream of environmental statutes that have cut deeply into traditional notions of property rights. When may they justly demand that the state compensate them for the sacrifices they are called upon to make for the common good? Ackerman argues that there is more at stake in the present wave of litigation than even the future shape of environmental law in the United States. To frame an adequate response, lawyers must come to terms with an analytic conflict that implicates the nature of modern legal thought itself. Ackerman expresses this conflict in terms of two opposed ideal types---Scientific Policymaking and Ordinary Observing---and sketches the very different way in which these competing approaches understand the compensation question. He also tries to demonstrate that the confusion of current compensation doctrine is a product of the legal profession's failure to choose between these two modes of legal analysis.He concludes by exploring the large implications of such a choice---relating the conflict between Scientific Policymaking and Ordinary Observing to fundamental issues in economic analysis, political theory, metaethics, and the philosophy of language.

The Brethren

The Brethren
Title The Brethren PDF eBook
Author Bob Woodward
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 717
Release 2011-05-31
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1439126348

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The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices—maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising, and making decisions that affect every major area of American life.

Judicial Control of Administrative Action

Judicial Control of Administrative Action
Title Judicial Control of Administrative Action PDF eBook
Author Louis Leventhal Jaffe
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Pages 816
Release 1965
Genre Law
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Collection of articles on legal aspects and control of the administration of justice in the USA and examination of major aspects of the relationship between agencies of economic administration and other forms of public administration and courts of law - includes relevant jurisprudence.

Unfurl Those Colors!

Unfurl Those Colors!
Title Unfurl Those Colors! PDF eBook
Author Marion V. Armstrong
Publisher University of Alabama Press
Pages 397
Release 2008-03-26
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0817316000

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The first in his authoritative two-volume study of the Battle of Antietam, Unfurl Those Colors! traces the engrossing story of the Union Army's strategies, stratagems, and movements on the bloodiest day in American military history.

The Mareva Injunction and Anton Piller Order

The Mareva Injunction and Anton Piller Order
Title The Mareva Injunction and Anton Piller Order PDF eBook
Author Richard N. Ough
Publisher Lexis Law Publishing (Va)
Pages 204
Release 1987
Genre Law
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They Wished They Were Honest

They Wished They Were Honest
Title They Wished They Were Honest PDF eBook
Author Michael F. Armstrong
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 432
Release 2012-06-05
Genre Law
ISBN 0231526989

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In fifty years of prosecuting and defending criminal cases in New York City and elsewhere,Michael F. Armstrong has often dealt with cops. For a single two-year span, as chief counsel to the Knapp Commission, he was charged with investigating them. Based on Armstrong's vivid recollections of this watershed moment in law enforcement accountability—prompted by the New York Times's report on whistleblower cop Frank Serpico—They Wished They Were Honest recreates the dramatic struggles and significance of the Commission and explores the factors that led to its success and the restoration of the NYPD's public image. Serpico's charges against the NYPD encouraged Mayor John Lindsay to appoint prominent attorney Whitman Knapp to chair a Citizen's Commission on police graft. Overcoming a number of organizational, budgetary, and political hurdles, Chief Counsel Armstrong cobbled together an investigative group of a half-dozen lawyers and a dozen agents. Just when funding was about to run out, the "blue wall of silence" collapsed. A flamboyant "Madame," a corrupt lawyer, and a weasely informant led to a "super thief" cop, who was trapped and "turned" by the Commission. This led to sensational and revelatory hearings, which publicly refuted the notion that departmental corruption was limited to only a "few rotten apples." In the course of his narrative, Armstrong illuminates police investigative strategy; governmental and departmental political maneuvering; ethical and philosophical issues in law enforcement; the efficacy (or lack thereof) of the police's anticorruption efforts; the effectiveness of the training of police officers; the psychological and emotional pressures that lead to corruption; and the effects of police criminality on individuals and society. He concludes with the effects, in today's world, of Knapp and succeeding investigations into police corruption and the value of permanent outside monitoring bodies, such as the special prosecutor's office, formed in response to the Commission's recommendation, as well as the current monitoring commission, of which Armstrong is chairman.